The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-28
IOWA STATE NEWS.

pleasure resort.
The Webster county fair this fall will
offer $1,000 in premiums.
Apples are selling from wagons in
Council Bluffs at 81 bushel.
The Story County Soldiers Reunion
will be held at Nevada, August 4th and
5th.
A telephone line IL to be constructed
from West Union via Postville to Wau-
kon.
A great many bogus nickels are in
circulation in the villages Of the east
ern part of the State.
Storm Lake has raised SIS. 900 as a
starter towards securing the Northwest
Iowa conference Seminary.
The Upper Mississippi Shooting As
sociation meets in Davenport during
the first week In September.
The City Marshal Of Keokuk reports
S77 arrests in the month OF June. Keo-
kuk has almost free whiskey.
The Dubuque Telegraph says it is
reported that couple living in that
city sold their baby for $1.5O.
The ninth annual reunion OF the old
soldiers and sailors Of Story county will
be held at Nevada, August and 5.
At Cherokee, on the Fourth, about
fifteen persons were poisoned by eating
meat, but none died from the effects.
A gold mine, from which ..pay dirt"
assaying 1915 per ton has been taken,
is one Of the discoveries in Montgomery
county.
A small detachment Of grasshoppers.
flying about 200 feet high, passed over
Sibley the other day in . southeasterly
direction.
The President has appointed Amos
H. Visner postmaster Ut Mason City,
Iowa, and Thomas C. Medary at
| Wankon, Iowa.
Mrs. James Hamilton, wife of a
prominent stock dealer OF Nora juno
ton, dropped dead Of dropsy Of the
the heart last week.
While drillingfor water near Nevada,
last week. Samuel White struck vein
Of coal three feet eight inches thick at
i at depth Of eighty feet.
The Fourth Biennial Reunion Of the
Sd Iowa Infantry will be held at West
Union. Fayette county, the home of Co.
F. Aug. 3lst and Sep. 1st.
Andrew Fossum, well to do farmer
Of Aamakee county, fell from load OF
hay the other day and broke his neck.
He never spoke after falling.
The Northwestern has purchased
min. acres Of land at Tama. at . cost
of $l.35O, on which it will locate stock
yards. Belle Plain is disappointed.
A 7-year-old boy, son Of S. Erickson,
Of Ottumwa. was run over in the street
and suffered broken jaw. The driver
was arrested and fined $40 and costs.
An old lady inmate Of the Carroll
county poor house last week made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide
BY throwing herself in pool Of water.
The sensation at Moulton last week
was the elopment Of Lewis Galliher and
Miss Della, daughter Of Mayor Swift.
They were last heard from at Nebraska
City.
Peter McDonough, an old and at one
time respected citizen OF Burlington,
suicided by cutting his throat in Gala.
boose cell of that city. A case oi
whisky.
All the churches OF Leon have united
in an arrangement for Sunday evening
services at 6 o'clock in the court house
park, in place Of services in the various
churches.
Atwo-year-old A child of John Kopriva.
near PocahOntas, died in terrible agony
the other day from drinking . solution
IF ..Rough on Rats that had been put
out to catch flies.
A Touring mill to cost about $35, 900,
and having capacity Of not less than
sevcnty-five barrels Of flour day, is to
be built at Calliope. The citizens give
u bonus Of $500.
Last Saturday section man at work
in the yards at Ottumwa was struck be-
tween the shoulders by a passing engine
and knocked senseless, narrc wly es.
Gaping with his life.
Hon. J. P. Dolliyer will lecture on
"Public Virtue and Education Essen.
tial to Good Government" before the
Lucas county Teachers Institute which
meets at Charleston on the Goth inst.
| B. NJ. Harger has been superintendent,
of the Sunday school Of the Second
Presbyterian church in Dubuque fol
twenty-five successive years. He ha.
just from an extensive European
trip.
Burlington young ladies have organ.
lied Mother Hubbard picnics, and q
in droves to the woods to enjoy thu
hot weather. with no young men al
lowed within two hundred yards O
them.
| An Ottumwa young man took seven
teen girls to the 10 cent circus. Th'
ticket seller gave him eighteen ticket
for $1.75, on1the ground that he Away
gave reduction to Sunday schools
when they attended in body.
H. the vicinity of Auburn, wher,
workmen we're boring well, At tn,
depth Of 65 feet water and gas begal
to flow, and for four days thel gas cam'
out with whizzing noise. Th'
sand caved In at the bottom and stop
ped the hole up.
In at least half q dozen countr,
papers Of Iowa the past week are &C
counts more or less extended of tn,
work Of sinde jewelry men in tn,
small towns. indicating that this clas
of swindlers are very plenty in low.
just at present.
/ Lightning struck a large hay barr
belonging to James Horrle, north 0
Boone last week. and burned it With al
its contents to the ground. Eight,
tons Of hay and large quantity 0
farm machinery was burned. Los
about 1880; partially insured.
At Cedar Rapids prisoner, who wa
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